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Dear all,

Thank you all for visiting, reading and sharing the news with me on the Fukushima Appeal Blog. I’ve kept it running since February 2012. Unfortunately, I will need some break now to attend to some of my health issues.

I would like to thank this blog and its supporters for giving me an opportunity to become a part of the slowly awakening global community during this very important time of global change. I had zero knowledge of nuclear before the Fukushima disaster, and was and still am a just normal citizen. It’s been hard to see Japan becoming a criminal, immoral and authoritarian country since the Fukushima Disaster. So it’s been a huge awakening and healing process to have a platform to speak out instead of feeling powerless, angry and sad about it. With the new secret law that is going to be introduced in Japan soon, Japanese people will need more help than at any other time in its history from foreign bloggers, doctors and scientists. Please remember Fukushima. I hope that the more difficulties we may encounter, the stronger and connected we will become to fight against injustice and be able to act from our heart space. (Mia)

Posted
by Mochizuki
on September 28th, 2013Receiving
the order of Japanese Prime Minister Abe, Tepco stated they are going
to complete treating all the contaminated water by the end of the
term of 2014. They commented it is possible with the multiple nuclide
removing system ALPS.

As
Fukushima Diary has been reporting, the multiple nuclide system
stopped only 2 months after the test operation started this Spring.
They found several parts severely deteriorated.(cf,
4 more parts found severely deteriorated in multiple nuclide removing
system ALPS only 2 months after test operation [URL])At
0:04 of 9/27/2013, Tepco restarted the system (C line), but it
stopped again at 22:37 of the same day. It was only 22 hours after
the restart of test operation.According
to Tepco, the process to remove α nuclide had the problem to
discharge the slurry. The cause is not verified yet.

Tepco
places the system “ALPS” as the
last hope with the frozen ground wall for the contaminated water
problem, but they haven’t established the technology.

Saturday, 28 September 2013

The Namie Town Assembly
unanimously passed the Sept. 20 protest resolution stating that there
is a “serious problem” with Abe’s remarks as they “contradict
reality.”

Fukushima Out of Control Did Japan Lie Its Way
Into the Olympics? CounterPunch WEEKEND EDITION
SEPTEMBER 27-29, 2013 by PETER LEEIn
order to secure the 2020 Tokyo Olympics for Tokyo, Japan’s Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe assured the IOC that the Fukushima situation was
“under control”, per
AFP:

“The contaminated water has been contained in an area
of the harbour only 0.3 square kilometres big.

“There have been no health
problems and nor will there be. I will be taking responsibility for
all the programmes with regard to the plant and the leaks.”

It looks like the key point, to paraphrase Bill Clinton is “what
your definition of ‘situation’ is”. If the “situation” is
currently officially stated radiological hazards to Tokyo and Olympic
participants thanks to Fukushima, the answer is a qualified “yes”.
That is, if the Japanese government continues to give public
credence to rather unfounded Tepco optimism that the Fukushima
clusterfuck will simply maintain the current trend of dumping
radioactive water into the ocean and the main danger to denizens of
Tokyo involves getting radioactive sushi from some tuna caught out in
the Pacific.
After Shinzo Abe came home from scoring the Olympics, he announced
that the Japanese government would participate more actively in the
faltering Tepco effort.
At the same time, Abe took pains not to stint on the denialist BS
that underpinned the Olympics bid, as if the main problem was not
hundreds of tons of sizzling fuel rods and thousands of gallons of
radioactive water, but “rumours”:

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ordered the scrapping
of two Fukushima nuclear reactors that survived the 2011 tsunami, a
write-off that threatens to complicate a turnaround plan the operator
has presented to creditors.

He also said he stood by his commitments to the
International Olympic Committee of insuring a safe 2020 Summer Games.

“I will work hard to counter rumours questioning the
safety of the Fukushima plant,” he said.

Some fact if not rumour-obsessed locals explicitly rebutted Abe’s
contention that the situation was “under control”. Per
Mainichi Shimbun:

The town assembly of nuclear disaster-hit Namie,
Fukushima Prefecture, passed a protest resolution against Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe on Sept. 20 for declaring the situation
surrounding the radioactively contaminated water leaks at the
Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant “under control.”

The prime minister made the controversial comments during
Tokyo’s final presentation at the International Olympic Committee
(IOC)’s general meeting in Buenos Aires on Sept. 7, saying, “Some
may have concerns about Fukushima. Let me assure you, the situation
is under control.” He also said the effect of the water leak has
been “completely blocked” within the 0.3 square kilometers of the
plant’s harbor.

The
Namie Town Assembly unanimously passed the Sept. 20 protest
resolution stating that there is a “serious problem” with Abe’s
remarks as they “contradict reality.” The protest also calls the
situation at the plant, where some 300 metric tons of radioactively
contaminated water is leaking into the ocean every day, “serious.”

“The
situation has never been ‘under control,’ nor is the contaminated
water ‘completely blocked,’” the protest read.

I
use the words “in principle” because in April of this year I was
forced to make one of the most difficult decisions of my teaching
career at the tertiary level: I was forced to recommend to the
university authorities where I was employed that they postpone their
planned Study Abroad Program in Japan scheduled for the fall of
2013.「原則的には」という言葉を使わせていただきます。今年4月、私は自分の高等教諭生活で最も難しい決断を迫られました。私が雇われている大学当局に、2013年秋に実施予定であった「日本での留学プログラム」の延期を勧告せざるを得ませんでした。

While
I deeply regretted this recommendation, I honestly felt that in good
conscience I had no choice. That is to say, in March 2013 I attended
a two-day Fukushima-related medical seminar at the New York Academy
of Sciences where I learned, for the first time, the full scope of
the ongoing dangers posed by radiation contamination from the
Fukushima No. 1 nuclear
plant.私はこの勧告自体は、非常に残念に思っています。しかし、私の両親に照らし合わせ、私
には他の選択肢はありませんでした。2013年3月に、ニューヨーク医学アカデミーで、私は2日間にわたる福島関連の医学セミナーに参加しました。そして
初めて、福島第一からの放射能汚染による進行中の危険についての全体像を学ぶことができたのです。（翻訳者注：日本からの発言者は崎山比早子さんと松村昭雄さんでしたが、お二人とも福島事故による健康被害については触れていませんでした。ですから、この方は恐らく2日目のランチミーティングで行われた、日本からの健康被害
報告を聞いていただけたのだと思います。がれき焼却問題を話した川井かつこさん、子供たちの外からもわかる甲状腺異常を話した橋本百合香さん、私も自分と
息子も含めた健康被害の話をさせていただきました～自腹で行った甲斐が少しはありました。。。http://savekidsjapan.blogspot.jp/2013_06_01_archive.htmlhttp://savekidsjapan.blogspot.jp/2013/04/ny-symposium-on-fukushimany.html）

This
knowledge was compounded by the fact that, upon returning to my home
in Yellow Springs, Ohio, I was contacted by a 2012 Study Abroad
Program participant who informed me that she had suffered from such
symptoms as vomiting, nosebleeds and recurring headaches, all
symptoms typically associated with radiation contamination. I was
forced to take
action.2012年の留学プログラムから私がオハイオのイエロースプリングの自宅に帰る際、一人の参加者が、この時得た知識と似たような症状を呈していました。嘔吐、鼻血、しつこい頭痛、放射線汚染と関連する典型的な症状でした。私は行動せずにはいられませんでした。True,
the student in question made a personal choice to visit the Tohoku
region during the individual research period that was part of the
Study Abroad Program. Thus, one reasonable response would have been
to forbid 2013 students from traveling anywhere north of Tokyo. As I
considered this option, however, I could not but recall the warnings
given by nuclear and medical experts both inside and outside of Japan
concerning the danger of additional major radiation contamination
coming from Fukushima No. 1.Thus, I regretfully came to the
conclusion that I could not expose students, especially female
students of childbearing age, to the possible danger of radiation
contamination, and informed the university accordingly.実際、この生徒はこの留学プログラムで、個人研究の期間は、東北を訪問場所として選んでいました。そういうことで、2013年の留学では、東京以北への訪問は禁じることが筋のある応対だと思いました。そしてこの選択を考える際、福島第一からくる放射線汚染の新たな危険性について、日本以外の原子力や医療の専門家からの警告を思い起こさずにはいられませんでした。そういうことで、残念ながら私は生徒を被曝させることはできない、特に子供を産む年齢の女生徒を放射能の危険性に晒させることはできないという結論にたどり着き、その旨を大学側に伝えました。Sadly,
in the ensuing months the situation at Fukushima No. 1 has only
worsened. Only recently Tepco finally admitted that 2.35 billion
becquerels of cesium per liter of water, roughly the same as that
measured right after the crisis began in spring 2011, has accumulated
in groundwater tested around Fukushima No. 1, from where it then
seeps into the ocean.
残念なことに、福島第一はその後、悪化の一途をたどっています。最近になってやっと東電は、事故直後とだいたい同じ濃度のリットル当たり２３．５億ベクレルのセシウムが福島第一の地下にたまっており、海に流れ出していることを発表しました。

Needless
to say, this amount of radiation is millions of times higher than
Japan’s acceptable limit.With this radiation now spewing
uncontrolled into the ocean, it is no longer possible to simply avoid
the danger by not traveling to the Fukushima area.
言うまでもなく、許容量の何百万倍もの放射能です。このような放射能がコントロールされずに海に流れ出し絵ちるのなら、福島にただ訪問しなければ回避されるという危険性ではありません。That
is to say, fish are swimming in an ever more heavily contaminated
environment where radiation bio-accumulates in the seafood. Thus the
largest fish, which eat the most, often live the longest and swim
great distances, become the most contaminated, and it is simply
impossible for the Japanese government, or any government, to check
every fish caught to ensure its
safety.すなわち、魚は魚介類に生体濃縮が起きるため、さらにひどく汚染された状況で泳いでい
ます。それで私たちが最もよく食する、長く生きて長距離泳ぐ大型の魚は、最も汚染されたものとなります。日本政府にもその他の政府にも、すべての魚を捕ま
えて安全性を確認することは不可能です。

Another
solution I seriously considered was for 2013 program students to
become vegetarians while in Japan. However, to my dismay I recently
learned, from an article published by the Fukushima Minpo newspaper
on Jan. 24, that the Japanese government plans to purchase
contaminated rice grown in Fukushima Prefecture (providing it
contains less than 100 becquerels/kg) and later sell it
nationwide.私が真剣に考えたのは、2013年のプログラムで、生徒には日本にいる間、ベジタリア
ンになってもらう事でした。しかし、がっかりしたのは、1月24日の福島民報によれば、日本政府が福島県で栽培された汚染米（１００Bq/kg以下を条件
として）を買い取り、全国で売る予定であるということでした。

I
fully realize, Minister Shimomura, that you are not in charge of
decisions related to Fukushima No. 1. But as a Cabinet minister, l
appeal to you to add your voice to those demanding that effective
measures be taken
immediately.下村大臣、私はあなたが福島第一関連の意思決定責任者でないことは存じています。しかし、閣僚として、実行力のある対策を早急にとるように求めていってほしいと思います。

A
delegation of Hibakusha (survivors of radiation) will be visiting
Bainbridge Island this Saturday.

— image
credit: Photo courtesy of Kathryn Keve

A
delegation of Japanese hibakusha
(atomic bomb survivors) and several others affected by the more
recent events at Fukushima from the World Friendship Center will
visit the Bainbridge Japanese American Exclusion Memorial at 10:30
a.m. Saturday, Sept. 28.The
group consists of16
members, including hibakusha, actual survivors of the only two
nuclear attacks in the history of the world, and several children of
survivors as well as translators and individuals remembering the
reconstruction of the cities and discussing the long-reaching effects
of radiation exposure.The
visit is one stop on a larger visit, part of a Peace Ambassador
Exchange program, to the country including visits to Portland,
Seattle and New Mexico.The
visit is organized in large part by Kathryn Keve of West Coast Peace
Pagoda initiative and “For the First 20!”, a nonprofit community
organization founded in 2010 to promote programs that support youth,
families and communities by strengthening relationships between
adults and youth and within families.
“One
thing I’ve learned recently is that a lot of people in Japan don’t
have a clue about the internment here,” Keve said. “And a lot of
people here don’t really know much about Fukushima and Hiroshima.
The whole idea is to exchange ideas and for them to come to America
and talk about the reality of Hiroshima.”Various
presentations will be made by members of the delegation.

“They
will have opportunities to talk to people about the radiation and how
it affected them personally,” Keve said.

The
Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial is located on
the site of the former Eagledale ferry dock at Pritchard Park, 4192
Eagle Harbor Drive.For
more information about the Bainbridge Island Japanese American
Community visit www.bijac.org/index.php?p=WELCOME.

To
learn more about the World Friendship Center, visit
www.homepage2.nifty.com/wfchiroshima

(Source)http://blog.goo.ne.jp/jpnx05/e/392a90860209f6fbae9e2df0acfcf954(Translation
by Mia) When
a parent whose baby had been born with polydactyly contacted
Fukushima Medical University to ask for an operation for their child,
they were told that they were very busy operating on babies with the
same condition and had more than a hundred on their waiting list.
They were also told they would have to wait another one or two years
before the operation could be performed, as the bones in the fingers
and hands need to be well developed.

Due to
contamination concerns, Seoul expanded its import ban to 50 products
from Fukushima, site of a nuclear disaster in March 2011, and seven
other nearby prefectures in Japan.

In addition to fish, the
ban now includes leafy vegetables such as cabbage and broccoli. Those
import restrictions, however, do not extend to processed foods or raw
ingredients.

About seven tons of fishery products from
Fukushima were imported in the span of one week last month, and local
NGOs say the public may be at risk.

"Even the main
ingredient in baby formula can be fish. There are many loopholes like
these when dealing with processed foods," a spokesman for a NGO
said.

Agricultural products from Japan are being
thoroughly tested every day here to see if there are
higher-than-average levels of radioactive cesium or iodine. However,
experts say there's no effective way to detect other potentially
harmful radioactive materials.

(Editor's
note: No food authorities checks other harmful radioactive materials
such as Strontium90 (half life is 29 years). It accumulates in bones.
Once it's been ingested, it stays in the body, keeping emitting
ionizing radiation to the nearest area in the body. It also
concentrates through food chains. In Japan powdered fish bones are
widely used as composing materials. )

But
I would not dare eat them myself.

The
consumers assume there is no radiation in the food they buy.

(Editor’s
comment: Prof. Koide at Kyoto Research Reactor Institute commented
that it was
0.1Bq/kg for cesium in ricebefore
the Fukushima disaster. So
100Bq/kg means 1000
times more
radioactively contaminated than before.)

FUKUSHIMA – Local fishermen in
Fukushima Prefecture on Wednesday restarted operations suspended late
last month after heavy amounts of contaminated water from the Fukushima
No. 1 nuclear plant was found leaking into the ocean.
A fleet of 20 fishing boats set off at around 2 a.m. from the port of
Matsukawaura in the city of Soma, 45 km north of the nuclear complex
that was severely damaged in March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
The boats returned shortly after 2 p.m. and began unloading their
catches, according to the Soma Futaba fisheries cooperative, an arm of
the Fukushima Prefectural Federation of Fisheries Cooperative
Associations.
Trial operations. suspended for 15 months amid the nuclear crisis,
restarted in June 2012 only to be halted Aug. 28 after Tokyo Electric
Power Co. disclosed the water leaks the day after the Upper House
election.
On Tuesday, the federation decided to resume trial fishing after a
string of radiation tests by member co-ops did not find any readings
above the government’s 100 becquerels per kilogram safety limit for food
products.
Of the 100 fish and seafood products tested, 95 were clear of
radioactive material, with the other five containing less than 1/10 of
the limit, the federation said.
“We must carry out this trial operation to demonstrate to Tepco, the
government and society that we are determined to act with an eye to
starting full-fledged operations,” Hiroyuki Sato, chief of the fisheries
co-op, told a group of fishermen prior to the fleet’s departure.
The 20 fishing boats that took part in Wednesday trial operations are
seeking to catch 18 species of fish and other seafood, including
octopus and squid.
The federation said Tuesday that it would put the catches on sale
after confirming that radiation readings for the catch is below 50
becquerels per kilogram — less than half the mandatory limit.
-------------------------------------------------

In Fukushima all farm produce must be
checked for the cesium level prior to shipping. The current
government limit is 100Bq/kg. The farmers know how many Bq of cesium
their produce contains. We can ship them if the reading is
lower than
100.

But
I would not dare eat them myself.

The
consumers assume there is no radiation in the food they buy.

(Editor’s
comment: Prof. Koide at Kyoto Research Reactor Institute commented
that it was 0.1Bq/kg for cesium in rice
before the Fukushima disaster. So 100Bq/kg means 1000
times more radioactively contaminated
than before.)

In
the wake of the Chernobyl disaster, the
EU and the USA relaxed their regulations
on the permitted maximum level of caesium in imported food, to
1250Bq/kg in the USA and 1200Bq/kg in the EU.

With
food imported from Japan after the Fukushima fallout, the EU only has
been asking for inspection documentation for food from the Tohoku and
Kanto regions. However, the USA tightened its regulations at
the beginning of September this year and now strictly regulates
imports from fourteen prefectures instead of the previous eight. For
example they stopped importing edible fungi and wild animal meat from
Tohoku and Kanto, and a variety of vegetables including rice,
soybeans and wild plants, as well as fish, from Tohoku area.

Previous
8 countries for tight control areas were Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate,
Ibaragi, Tochigi, Gunma, Chiba, Kanagawa prefectures. After this
September Aomori, Yamagata, Saitama, Niigata, Yamanashi, Nagano and
Shizuoka prefectures have been added to the list of the tight control
areas.

In
a myriad of issues coming from Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)
concerning the severely damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant, the
latest revealed was the discovery of a hole in its underwater fence,
which is meant to keep sediments from reaching the Pacific
Ocean. The utility said Thursday that albeit the hole, the
remaining barriers remain intact.It
somehow reminds this writer of the sole storage tank that leaked
300 tons of radioactive water. The silt fence found to have a
hole is one of the barriers set up around the plant, which is
supposed to ensure the isolation of radioactive materials coming from
the defunct nuclear reactors. According to the utility, like the
remaining storage tanks of radioactive
water, the other fences have not been damaged

(Source)http://japandailypress.com/former-us-nuclear-safety-chief-says-japan-acted-too-slowly-on-fukushima-water-leaks-2436497/Sep 24, 2013 John
Hofilena (Translation by Mia)Gregory
Jaczko, a former chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC) who is in Tokyo upon being invited by a Japanese anti-nuclear
citizen’s group, said on Tuesday that the leaks of contaminated
water that are hounding the decommissioning of the crippled Fukushima
nuclear plant had been known since early in the crisis, and have
worsened only because the Japanese government and Tokyo Electric
Power Co. (TEPCO) – the facility’s operator – acted too slowly.
Jaczko said that the United
States and Japanese officials knew leaks would occur when massive
amounts of water were used to cool molten reactors at the Fukushima
plant. 「米・日本政府は、溶けた燃料棒を冷やすために、大量の水をかけ始めたときから、汚染水漏れが起こることは、理解していた」とＮＲＣの元委員長グレゴリー・ヤツコ氏が発言。 Jaczko
mentioned that he was surprised at how long it took Japan and TEPCO
to start tackling the problem. “It’s been known for a long time
that this would be an issue,” he said at a news conference in
Tokyo. “My biggest surprise is to some extent how it’s been
allowed to deteriorate, a little bit, and how it’s almost become a
surprise again that there are contamination problems, that there is
leakage
out into the sea.” When the Fukushima plant was in critical
condition after the tsunami rendered three reactor cores of the plant
melted, Jaczko said that Japanese and U.S. officials were already
talking about how much water should be used for cooling. Jaczko said
that the Japanese government was concerned that flooding those
reactor vessels and buildings with water “would lead to greater
leakage of ground water”, but the NRC said that the reactors needed
to be kept cool to minimize the airborne contamination. Eventually,
Jaczko said that the “focus was lost” on the need to keep
addressing the radioactive water problem, and TEPCO delayed
on trying to resolve the issue.当時、日本政府は、大量の水をかければ、地下水の漏れにつながると懸念し、どのくらいの量の水を掛けるべきかを検討していたが、ＮＲＣ側は、大気に放出される放射能の量をできるだけ抑えるためには、解けた燃料棒を冷やし続ける必要がある、そのためには水をかけつづけざる終えないという意見であった。 しかしながら、東電は、汚染水漏れの問題はあとまわして、現在の状況にいたってしまった。 Japanese
officials confirmed for first time in July that contaminated ground
water had been leaking into the Pacific soon after the accident,
contrary to the claims by TEPCO that the radiation levels were normal
outside the plant. 日本政府は今年7月に、東電の原発敷地外の汚染度は正常と主張していたのに反対の見解；放射能汚染した地下水が太平洋に流失してしまったことを、初めて、認めた。Leaders
of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, in power during the
crisis, also acknowledged last week that there was indeed a proposal
to build a seawall to block contaminated water from leaking into the
sea, but that had been put
off for nearly two years as TEPCO resisted the plan for financial
reasons.野党の民主党のリーダーたちは、東電がこの2年間のあいだ、汚染水の流出を止めるための遮水壁建設をする案もあったが金銭的な理由で見送りしてことを、明らかにした。。。。。。。The
public has become very concerned at the effect of almost 300 tons of
radioactive groundwater leaking into the Pacific Ocean, while the
current administration has recently
released funding for the development of more advanced water
treatment equipment and paying for a costly ice wall to surround the
reactor and turbine buildings and prevent them from contaminating
outside groundwater.(Editor's note) They said it would cost 1billion dollars to build a seawall to block contaminated water. Tepco didn't want to spend that money, worrying it's shares might had fallen down if they had to spend that amount of money. Soon after the disaster Prof. Koide at Kyoto nuclear laboratory suggested to build underground dam (made of concrete) to stop leaking radioactive water into the sea. Tepco didn't want that either.
--------------------------------------------------------------------Wednesday,
25 September 2013アメリカ原子力規制委員会、福島第一原発の汚染水問題、政府の対応を批判、日本の国際的信頼が揺らいでいる、汚染水の問題は重大だ
http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/blog-post_25.htmlアメリカ原子力規制委員会の委員長を務めていたグレゴリー・ヤツコ氏が２３日、東京
都内で講演し、福島第一原発の汚染水の問題について「なぜもっと早く政府が関与しなかったのか不思議でならない」と述べ、日本政府のこれまでの対応を批判
しました。-----------------------------------------------------------------

グレゴリー・ヤッコ元米原子力規制委員会委員長、日本の対応の遅れを指摘事故の初期に必要な対策を怠った結果、今日の巨額の対策実施が必要になったBecause
of Tepco and Japanese Government had delayed to address the leaking
problems, it ended up costing huge amount of money to spend to sort
out the problems.http://kobajun.chips.jp/AP通信
/
ワシントンポスト ９月24日

Prime Minister of Japan was talking about his own "0.3
square kilometer" of the harbor where the "effect" of
contaminated water is supposedly completely contained, according to
none other than himself. (Even TEPCO was baffled at his
comment.)

It
was revealed on September 20 that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had asked
"(Where) is the 0.3 (square kilometer)?" to the TEPCO
management at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant on September 19, as
they explained to the prime minister how the effect of radioactive
materials on the marine environment is
contained.

At
the General Meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
which voted for Tokyo, Prime Minister Abe explained "The effect
of contaminated water is completely blocked within the 0.3 square
meters of the plant harbor." He may have been saying it without
knowing the actual extent [of the effect of contaminated water].

安倍首相は東電の小野明所長から放射性物質の海への流出や海中での拡散を防ぐ対策の説明を受けた際に「０・３は？」と質問した。

Prime
Minister Abe was briefed by TEPCO's Plant Manager Akira Ono on the
countermeasures to prevent radioactive materials from leaking into
the ocean and spreading in the ocean, when he asked "Where is
0.3?"

[…]

------------------------------------

Thursday,
September 19, 2013

To win 2020 Olympic for Tokyo, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe declared to the world that his government will be "at
the forefront" to deal with problems at Fukushima I Nuclear
Power Plant. Reading the article by Nikkei Shinbun about his most
recent visit to the plant and comments from his ministers, it sure
looks all talk, nothing but talk.[…]

As
to the contaminated water treatment, he said, "In the empty
space created by decommissioning Reactors 5 and 6, we can build
additional tanks to store contaminated water." He expressed
his desire again to have all contaminated water stored in the tanks
treated by the end of fiscal 2014, and emphasized he would "do
anything ahead of schedule that can be done ahead of schedule".

"Happy", one of several workers who have been tweeting
from the plant since the beginning of the accident, gently reminds
his followers that:

Spent fuel assemblies in the Spent Fuel Pools of Reactors 5
and 6 should be removed first, and that won't happen until July 2014
at the earliest (tweet);

After spent fuel assemblies are removed, dismantling will
start with equipments and pipes with low contamination. It will
be at least 10 years before we start dismantling the reactors
themselves. (tweet)

In dismantling a reactor, pipes and equipments in the primary
line will be chemically cleaned and decontaminated, but dismantling
doesn't happen at least until 5 years pass. (tweet)

It's because Cobalt-60, major source of radiation for
pipes and equipment, has the half life of about 5 years. (tweet)

Even the decommissioning of small-scale or experimental
reactors like the one in Tokai-mura is problematic, with unforeseen
problems. (tweet)

I would suggest Mr. Motegi or his secretary follow these workers
on Twitter.

I do feel sorry for TEPCO managers who have to
kowtow to politicians like Motegi.

When a phenomenon such as nuclear fallout comes into question,
there will be two extreme sides. The fear-mongers and the skeptics. The
fear mongers will say everyone who reasonably can should evacuate out of
Tokyo while the skeptics will say that Tokyo is completely safe and
everywhere is safe outside the 30km restricted zone.
Allow me to lend my logic and experience to the matter.
I became sick from radiation while living in Tokyo for 2 months. My
ongoing symptoms were somewhat subtle – it took me many months after the
fact to realize what had actually happened. That is only because I had
pristine health right before Japan, the internet to absorb a lot of
knowledge within a reasonable amount of time, and health practitioners
who not only spent decades studying health but also have the mind set to
be open minded to such an occurrence.
My girlfriend became sick from radiation. She would not have realized unless I was able to help her understand.
A friend of a friend became sick from radiation while going to Tokyo
on business for a month and her doctor told her she cannot have children
for 10 years. That is from word of mouth so I can factually go into
detail about her situation.
Yet, many of my other friends in Tokyo report no such symptoms of radiation sickness.
To say EVERYONE is going to get sick from radiation in Tokyo or NO
ONE is both wrong. More logically, many people in Tokyo will get sick to
varying degrees. It’s hard for it not to be many when tens of millions
of people live in such a condensed area. However, chances at this point
are the ongoing symptoms will be subtle like mine and they will chalk it
up to another reason.
At the same time, NOT EVERYONE will get sick because they will have
taken necessary precautions, live in an area of Tokyo that isn’t hot,
etc. Perhaps they will ingest some radiation, but the amounts are small
enough that symptoms don’t occur and the bodies defense system can
naturally handle the insult.
Please use knowledge and logic to make informed decisions about your
health. Only YOU can be responsible for your own health in matters like
these. Not the government, not your doctor. That is all.

It was a beautiful August day in 2012 where I had been living in
Santa Monica, CA for 1 year. “I’ve never been healthier!” My body and my
mood never felt consistently better! I even noticed that my hair was so
easy to manage and my skin was tan and flawless.
It felt great, and I knew it would be helpful for me on my upcoming 2
month trip to Tokyo, Japan. I would do some partying and eat some
unhealthy foods. But it’d be OK, because I was in such good shape.
The first month went great. I met some friends who i’ve met in other
parts of the world. I made new friends. I even met a girl and we ended
up spending a lot of time together.
I started taking Japanese lessons early on and my teacher and friends
remarked at how quickly I was progressing. I was determined to get good
at this difficult language of Japanese so I could more comfortably
visit back there in the future.
I would go out often, and often spend a lot of money on restaurants.
Tokyo was expensive, but I didn’t care. This is my vacation time and I
wanted to enjoy this wonderful city. Tokyo was great. Everyone was so
polite and accommodating to me which I enjoyed. The sushi, the
teppanyaki, the hot pot was all very tasty. The subway system was super
efficient and easy to manage. What a great city! I still felt very
healthy and energetic.
Then it went downhill.
On October 4th, 2012, about 2 hours into my sleep in my high rise
rental in Roppongi, I woke up with the worst headache i’ve ever had in
my life. I felt a deep aching to the bones of my body. “What the hell is
going on?” I never get headaches and I have never felt this sort of
bone pain before.
I remember having these terrible feelings of grief and agony. I
wanted it to stop! I even remember telling myself that i’d rather be
dead then feel this pain! The terrible pain remained for 1 hour, until I
could finally find it in me to fall back asleep.
The next day, I did not feel well at all. I had no energy and my mood
was terrible. I stayed in and my girlfriend took care of me.
I no longer felt headaches or sharp pains, which was a relief. I
shrugged the incident off. However, my lack of energy and poor mood
remained and I mentally made note of this. How come I went from feeling
so healthy and energetic to consistently tired and irritable? I didn’t
know and I shrugged it off.
I could not concentrate any longer. My Japanese teacher noticed in
the next lessons that I could not focus. My mood was not good either,
even though I did my best to manage it. My heart so wanted to continue
to improve but my brain just could not concentrate! I ended up stopping
the Japanese lessons entirely and spent more time with my girlfriend.
Again, I shrugged the whole situation off and continued another month in
Tokyo.
After October 4th, I had no energy to go out. I would wait until
night time and go to a restaurant for dinner with my girlfriend, then
come right back home. Such a drastic change since before October 4th,
but why?

While I was living in Tokyo for 2 months, I spent almost everyday
with the girl I met out there. We ate many of the same foods, drank the
same water and went to the same places. Once I realized I had became
sick from radiation, my first reaction was to contact her to see if she
was alright.
She thought I was crazy to think I had suffered from radiation. She
talked to some of her friends and they all thought I was crazy to think
radiation effected me in Tokyo.
Then she told me the symptoms she was having herself:
- shaking hands
- dizziness
- lethargy / fatigue
- other unexplained illness
- headaches everyday, all day
- lack of appetite
She went to the doctor and the doctor told her she had
dysautonomonia. I looked up the symptoms of this ailment of the nervous
system: Excessive fatigue, lightheadedness, dizziness or vertigo
(fainting), feelings of anxiety or panic, rapid heart rate.
Is it not odd that I have felt all those symptoms since coming from
Japan? That I fainted for the very first time in my life and felt
fatigued everyday? Did I also somehow contract dysautonomonia? No,
because that is not contagious.
Lets be logical.
Perhaps we both became victims of radiation since radiation effects
the nervous system. Since radiation effects the endocrine system. Since
radiation causes all those symptoms we both shared. Since people all
over YouTube are showing us that there is indeed dangerous levels of
radiation in Tokyo.
Luckily I convinced her.
This is very, very serious. Not just for me and my girlfriend.
Probably hundreds of thousands, if not MILLIONS of people have been
affected by the radiation in varying degrees.
This is epidemic. Don’t believe the government. Don’t believe the
media. Don’t believe the people not living in Japan who don’t understand
the magnitude of the situation. Look at the cold hard facts, look at
the anecdotes. Hell, look at the past in Chernobyl. The Japanese people
are getting seriously messed up by radiation atleast as far as TOKYO,
and the saddest part is that most don’t even realize.

The next step for me was of self discovery. I remember just how
healthy I felt prior to Japan. Now what other symptoms have I had since
Tokyo that I never had before?
Initial symptoms on Oct 4th
-extreme headache
-pain in bones
Ongoing symptoms afterwards:
-fatigue / lethargy
-poor mood
-lack of concentration
-brittle nails
-hair loss
-pimple like expulsions over my chest
-not able to handle stress as easily
-dizziness
-fainted for the 1st time in my life
-bleeding gums
If you will take a look at any website detailing the symptoms of
radiation poisoning, you will find something very similar to the above.
Now I was completely confident that I was indeed poisoned by radiation.
Please remember, I lived in TOKYO for 2 MONTHS. I took one trip to
Hakone, but besides that, remained in Tokyo. I did not go any closer to
Fukushima!
Now can you imagine how bad people have it that are consistently
living all throughout Japan? The real victims are the children. The real
victims are the people living there with no realistic way out.
And the worst part of it all, they cannot take action because they simply do not realize how dangerous it really is…

The last couple of weeks in Tokyo were a drag. Here I was in this
great city, with a girl I adored, yet my subconscious was telling me
it’s time to leave. It’s time to go back to Santa Monica, by the beach
and just chill.
I arrived back the United States with a very irritable mood. I
remember not treating a friend so well because of my mood. I figured I
was just jet lagged from the travel. Usually when I travel I am sad to
leave, but it was the opposite in this case. I was just happy enough to
be back home.
It was the middle of September 2012 and I got settled into my old
living arrangement. About one week later, I’m driving in my car and I
run my hand through my hair. I notice a substantial amount of hair
coming out. I run my hand through my hair again and again a bunch of
hair comes out.
I had no idea what to think. “That’s weird. I must be shedding my
hair to grow in a bunch of new hair,” I thought. I never had any hair
loss like this. I’m still at a young age of 26.
My next appointment with my barber went awry.
“Your hair has gotten thinner.”
“What do you mean?”
“It’s thinner and more flimsy. Don’t worry, everyone starts thinning around your age.”
I knew he was lying. I knew that not everyone starts thinning at my
age. I knew he just didn’t want me to stress out and cause more hair
loss.
Oh, I stressed. I stressed like never before. Yet, knowing my care
free self, I never would stress out so much at the idea of losing some
hair. I completely overreacted and I didn’t know why.
That is when I took action. I did all the reading on the internet I
could. What other symptoms do I have? Brittle nails. OK. Hair loss,
reasons for hair loss. Genetics. No, it’s not genetics. Thyroid problems
cause hair loss and brittle nails. OK, but for what reason would my
thyroid become so unhealthy so quickly? Maybe there is a link between my
fatigue and my hair loss / brittle nails.
Many hours of research and a couple of consultations with health
professionals gave me my best evidence supported answer. Radiation
poisoning.
That’s when I realized that not only did I have brittle nails and
hair loss, but many of the other symptoms that are linked to radiation
poisoning. And It all started during or after my 2 month stay in Tokyo.

Dr
Edward Group ~ The Dangers of Radiation

Recently
I was on Info Wars with Anthony Gucciardi and we discussed the
dangers of radiation, how we’re exposed to this toxic glow, and the
measures you can take to protect yourself and your family. This is a
big deal. Radiation is escaping Fukushima at an alarming rate. Are
you prepared for the toxic aftermath?

Fukushima clean-up may be doomed http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/asia-pacific/fukushima-clean-up-may-be-doomed-1.153770224 Sept 13
Critics say Japan’s government is engaged in a vast, duplicitious and
fruitless campaign Across much of Fukushima’s rolling green countryside
they descend on homes like antibodies around a virus, men wielding
low-tech tools against a very modern enemy: radiation. Power hoses,
shovels and mechanical diggers are used to scour toxins that rained down
from the sky 30 months ago. The job is exhausting, expensive and, say
some, doomed to failure. Read more »

Evacuation

In Fukushima there was 2 million population including 360,000 children.

The Japanese government evacuated about 100,000 (87,000 out of 20km radios of the plant), and most of them are still in Fukushima prefecture. 65% of Fukushima prefecture became the radiation control area (a level of the contamination is more than 37,000Bq/m2), so therefore most of them are still in radioactively contaminated area unless they evacuated out of Fukushima prefecture into safe area voluntarily without any financial help from the government. Voluntary evacuees within Fukushima prefecture is 23,551, voluntary evacuees out of Fukushima prefecture is 27,776 as of 22/9/11. Even Fukushima-city which is 50km away from the plant is no longer safe, especially for children. The government statistics shows that only about 36,000(including about 20,000children, ) left Fukushima prefecture. And most of them left Fukushima Prefecture voluntarily without any financial support from the government.(October 2012)

Food Safaty

Amount of allowable ionizing radiation in foodincluding rice in Japan is now 100BQ/kg for cesium.

So this could mean that contaminated food which they can’t sell in Japan could be exported to the countries that have more relaxed regulations, such as EU countries and Thai (500) and Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippine, Vietnam, Malaysia (1000) and USA (1200).

*A Woman Who Refuses to Give In to A New Nuke PlantPlease send her a postcard: Atsuko Ogasawara, owner of “Asako House”, built in the center of the planned Ohma Nuclear Power Plant premises. She would appreciate it if you could send a post card (just with a few words is ok). Receiving a mail as much as possible helps her position to keep up anti nuclear campaign. Here is “Asako House”’s address: Ms. Atsuko Ogasawara, c/o Asako House, 396 Aza Ko-okoppe, Oh-aza Ohma, Ohma Machi, Shimokita Gun, Aomori

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Fukushima disaster is not over. It seems getting worse. Continuous leaking of ionizing radiation into the atmosphere (10million Bq/hour or more) and into the sea.. There seems no end and no solution to stop it. There is no good result in decontamination work. 27 children developed thyroid cancer. More reports of deformed babies. More people of dying of leukemia and sudden death.… Yet the Japanese Government wants all evacuees to go back to their home land by 2020. Even trying to sell nuclear to other countries, claiming it’s going to be safe. I hope information from this blog to give you views from the victim’s side of stories, health issues and related information on nuclear disaster, especially about Fukushima disaster. We should remember and learn lessons from ongoing tragedy happening in Chernobyl and Fukushima.

100% nuclear free: Japan shut down its last reactor on 15/9/13 – There has been no shortage of electricity since 3.11

*IAEA ＆ WHO downplays the danger of radiation. (Refer to the comment on Feb.2012)

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant up date news

(October 10, 2012)

The Fukushima disaster is far from over, with 10million BQ every hour of ionizing radiation (80% is coming out of reactor 2) leaking continuously into the air (as of October, 2012). No human can get near to the reactors. Even robot can only stay a couple of hours. Reactor 4 is still the most worrying, with 1535 spent fuel rods in the pool. A further6, 375 spent fuel rods are stored in a shared pool only 50 meters away from the Reactor 4. After the disaster, the maximum allowable dose of ionized radiation was raised to 250mSv/yfrom 100 mSv/y for Tepco workers (3000 workers every day) until the situation is restored to normal. Because of the dangerously high level of ionized radiation at the site, they can only work for a limited time, which makes progress slow, and more and more workers have been exposed to the maximum radiation, which means that it could be difficult to find enough people to work there continuously during the next at least 40 years work of decommissioning.

Nobody knows how and when we will be able to say that the Fukushima disaster is over.